Top 10 Democratic excuses for losing the mid-terms

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It's the (fill in blank), stupid!

It’s Wednesday morning, you’re a Democrat and you’re waking up after a terrible night. You’re hung over and you can’t quite remember what happened. You’re pretty sure you lost the House of Representatives and – who knows? – perhaps even the Senate as well. You have a vague recollection of Harry Reid being sent back to Searchlight, Nevada. It might have been a hallucination but didn’t you lose another Kennedy seat in New England too?

You reach for your remote control to check out what the pundits are saying but can’t find it. Perhaps someone threw it at the television set when Illinois went red (or was it Wisconsin?). Never mind, you don’t need to listen to the excuses because they’re all been aired beforehand. Here’s an idiot’s guide as to why the Democrats lost (with apologies to James Carville):

1. It’s the stupid, stupid

2. It’s the nuts and wusses, stupid. Democrats ran away from Obama’s stellar record.

3. We’re just so focussed on good policy, stupid. Democrats just did the right thing instead of worrying about grubby politics.

4. It’s the history, stupid. The president’s party always loses in the mid-terms (move along, nothing to see here).

5. You’re impatient, stupid. Change has not come fast enough and Obama was much too moderate.

6. It’s the message, not the product, stupid. Democrats have great policies but a poor message.

7. It’s Rove and those dastardly foreigners, stupid. Karl Rove and shadowy outside groups funded by foreign money swamped the Democrats with cash, corrupting our democracy.

8. It’s the racism, stupid.

9. It’s the media’s fault (especially Fox), stupid.

10. It’s stupid Bush, stupid.

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The top reason will be it is all Bush's fault.